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Ads want my attention. It is a limited resource and I don’t want to spend it on ads. Google in particular are some of the richest companies in the world due to
by baq 3y ago
Ads want my attention. It is a limited resource and I don’t want to spend it on ads.
Google in particular are some of the richest companies in the world due to people who can’t or won’t figure out ad blockers. Why they care about mine now I can’t exactly understand.
- IsoldesKnight 3y agoThe answer is probably related to why a paid premium tier negates the value of an ad-supported free tier. A person who can't (or won't) afford the paid tier is probably not going to pay an advertised product, and thus the consumers of the free tier are less interesting (e.g. valuable) to advertisers. For value to exist in the free tier, it must reach the entire audience. Think about how radio or newspaper advertising worked. If one segment figures out how to avoid the advertisements, it reduces the value of the remaining audience more than proportionally.